by Becca Risley | Mar 10, 2016 | News Slider
It all started with a passion for music. Clarence Paul Brown, father of Lipscomb professor Larry Brown and grandfather to Lipscomb sophomore Emily Butts, donated 323 hymnals to the The Bailey Hymnal Collection in February. The hymns are to be stored in the Beaman Library Special Collection archives. “Paul’s donation is monumental because to have a collection from a member of the Church of Christ and in the Nashville area is something special,” special collections librarian Elizabeth Rivera said. “What makes his gift so significant is that a lot of them are from the 1920s and they are just treasures of what different churches and denominations used for worship.” Brown began leading singing at the age of 16 and just before donating his collection of hymnals to the archives, he celebrated 70 years of song leading. While several of the donated hymnals were his own, a bulk of the collection came from Michael Moore. Moore was also a song leader and spent several years collecting hymnals. “Unfortunately he died of a heart attack,” professor Brown said. “His widow knew Dad was a good friend of his and loved music too, so she gave them to him. “The books were from multiple people. Inside, you can see they were gifts from lots of different people – all from a lifelong love of hymns.” Because of this donation, which included three CD’s and a few newspaper clippings, the archives now have over 2,800 hymnals. “I know letting go of those hymnals was hard for him because that meant acknowledging that that part of his life was over, but I’m proud of...
by Brianna Langley | Sep 19, 2015 | News Slider
After generating an idea almost 40 years ago, Dr. Jerry Gaw of the Lipscomb Department of History, Politics and Philosophy prepares for the completion of a laborious literary project. His coming book focuses on how David Lloyd George’s Church of Christ background influenced his politics while he served as Prime Minister of Great Britain during the First World War. “I first learned that Prime Minister David Lloyd George was a member of the Church of Christ in 1979 when I was in graduate school,” Gaw said. “I did not get to start research in Britain until 1994 because that’s when I received a grant to do so.” Since that initial 1994 grant, Gaw has only been able to travel overseas for research three other times. After years of compiling and writing, he hopes to be able to send his first draft in for publishing no later than March of 2016. From then, Gaw said it should only take a little over a year before the final product is out on the market. “I have published a book about Joseph Lister and antisepsis, which was my dissertation subject. The final book I wrote came out in 1999 though,” Gaw said. “Everybody ‘ought to have at least one book in each millennium I think.” Gaw’s working title for his unedited 500-page piece is David Lloyd George and the Politics of Religious Convictions. The book will revolve around Lloyd George’s writings and policies that allude to his upbringing in the Church of Christ and his various social and economic convictions that seem to be results of his religious affiliation. “When I first started doing research in 1994,...
by Becca Risley | Sep 10, 2015 | News Slider
In remembrance of the 70th Anniversary of World War II, several gathered Thursday evening in Lipscomb’s Stowe Hall to dedicate a forgotten chapter of Tennessee’s history. Almost 400 letters written by German prisoners of war to their Tennessee second family were translated and are now archived at Beaman Library. “These letters are not a story of war,” history professor Dr. Tim Johnson said. “This is the story of amazing reconciliation — a story where if you take away the hate and the politics of war, you find a story of human beings talking and conversing with one another, finding relationships.” Speakers at the “From Foe to Friend” event included Johnson, German professor Dr. Charlie McVey, sophomore German exchange student Ines Konschewitz and Curtis Peters, the man who donated the letters. Late in the 1980s, Peters’ sister-in-law, Lynn Pettus, discovered the letters stuffed away in an old Corn Flakes box in a closet of their family home. “I first thought they were love letters,” Pettus said, remembering her great aunt’s love affair from years prior. “Low and behold, they were in a different language and we later discovered they were from the German prisoners who were here during the war.” Many of the POWs worked on property owned by the James Henry Stribling and Brock families. The men cut timber and plowed fields, growing closer with the Brocks as they shared cold milk together in the heat of several afternoons. Each letter sent after the war detailed the lives of the former prisoners. The men would write to the Brocks, thanking them for their hospitality and sharing stories of life in...
by Erin Turner | Feb 16, 2015 | News Slider
All day and night classes for Tuesday, Feb. 17 have been canceled due to inclement weather. Monday dropped down below 20 degrees. Roads and sidewalks remain covered in a mixture of snow and ice. TV meteorologists are predicting a 50 percent chance of snow on Wednesday. Students should look for communication from instructors for additional information on class assignments. Information concerning staff can be seen...
by Erin Turner | Feb 15, 2015 | News Slider
In light of Monday’s weather forecast, students and professors are already taking precautions on campus. A wintry mix is called for on Monday, beginning at 3 a.m. TV meteorologists have been forecasting for days that Nashville has a 100 percent chance of heavy snow falling by 8 a.m. Lipscomb’s class schedule disruption policy states that the university will not cancel classes or close offices except during rare weather-related instances. Should an event that causes disruption of the entire campus occur, students will be notified via Bison Alert. The cancellation of classes is left up to instructors. “Instructors are responsible to see that the learning goals of the class are not compromised by any missed class days,” Lipscomb’s class schedule disruption policy states. Professors are encouraged to hold phone or Skype calls, or use teaching alternatives like Blackboard, Tegrity or video podcasts to conduct class. See the university’s class disruption policy and tips for keeping warm...
